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TWENTYNINTH SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 1899 NUMBER 105
ENGLAND AND TRANSVAAL
DRIFTING FARTHER APARt
President fingers Reply Brings the Dispute With
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London Sept 16A special dispatch
ti jm Pretoria says The Transvaal ad
heres to the Seven years franchise law
but is willing to consider and if neces
sary to adopt any suggestions Great
Britain may ihiake with regard to the
working of the law In regard to the
other points of Mr Chamberlains dis
patch the Transvaal boldly stands by
the London convention It said that
the reply is couched in polite terms
State Secretary Reitz in the course
of an interview today expressed some
doubt as to whether any alteration
would be made in the existing franchise
law but said he believed a way should
and could be found to establish an ar
bltration court As to suzerainty the
least said the soonest mended remark
ed the state secretary
In the forecasts of President Kru
gers reply there is undoubtedly a large
basis of truth which seems to bring the
disnute within a measurable distance
of war
Last evening the press association
issued a curious statement to the ef
sect that as soon as the garrison in
Natal had been sufficiently strength
ened the Transvaal government would
bt called upon to accept a new conven
tion already drafted which while
guaranteeing the integrity of the
Transvaal state provides for the demo
lition of the forts and limits the armed
force of the Transvaal to a number
deemed sufficient to maintain internal
order
Beaches Acute State
According to the press association
the convention will demand that the
diplomatic agencies be suppressed and
the judiciary be m1de Independent Of
the executive
This statement which realizes the
extreme demands of the Outlanders
must be accepted under reserve at the
present stage but it is not unlikely to
be a semiofficial hint as to the next
rcove of the government should Presi
dent Kruger prove obstinate
The morning paper editorials regard
the crisis as having reached its most
noute phase The Daily News says
We refuse to believe that President
Krugtr is so foolish as to reject Mr
Chamberlains modest demands
The Daily Chronicle which appeals
again to Mr Kruger to accept while
It is vet time and before Englands
terms become harder says
A refusal of the present terms will
involve the ruin of the state over which
President Kruser presides The British
government has played its first and
second moves in the game and must
perforce play the third and then the
fourth If Mr Kruger haggles the sin
t ister conditions In South Africa will
grow worse until a catastrophe is
ieached
Other papers talk of the imminence
of vm and all the dispatches from
South Africa continue to describe the
military preparations on both sides
The Pretoria correspondent of the
Dally Chronicle says
Anything Is Possible
The Boers assert that Mr Coyngham
Green British diplomatic agent at Pre
toria knew it was their Intention to
adopt the attitude they have regarding
suzerainty and that he tacitly encour
aged tlem a the documents show
sow
His fortyeighthouir demand and the
string ot blue book innuendoes for
which he and Sir Alfred Milner are responsible
sponsible hav produced a official at
mosphere in which anything is possi
be At the same time Mr Hofmeyer
and practically every member of the
Cape Afrikander party have wired
taands urging acceptance of the British de
The Pretoria correspondent of the
Times in his forecast of the Trans
vaalF reply declares that the Boers
will lay stress on the sevenyear fran
chise law though offering to consider
their suggestion a to its working an
for the rest take their stand in the Lon
don convention
The Times says We cannot believe
that President Kruger will reject the
latest proposals of the government and
we would remind him that even Mr
Merely has endorsed the live veals
franchise and urged hi mto accept the
Cape Town conference
I Is I understood that a cabinet council
whl be summoned as soon a the
Transvaals reply i eel wl TOP he
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toria correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian telegraphing Friday says
Situation Is Grave
The situation has becomeextremely
grave The material changesTTTlhe
I draft of the reply delivered to Mr
I Green today are due to representations
I from Blomfontein and the disposition
of the volksraad
I The dispatch then gives what pur
ports to be a summary bf the reply
which is similar to the other forecasts
concluding as follows
The Transvaal feels at liberty to
depart from the joint inquiry which
she accepted in the bona fide belief that
it would lead to a final settlement
The correspondent adds Both the
president and the exacutive council are
firmly convinced that no fn amy is in
tended and that further concessions
would only postpone the struggle The
Transvaal regards herself as tricked
into a proposal by Mr Chamberlain
The Orange Free State will certainly
stand by the Transvaal
I OPPOSED TO PUBTHEB DELAY
British I South Africa Predict an
Early Conflict
I London Sept 15A second edition of
the Londonj Times today prints a
special dispatch from New Castle
Natal dated Sept 15 which bears out
the British high commissioners state
ment a it says the outlanders council
has tranmite to the imperial gov
ernment what practically amounts to a
protest against further delay The cor
respondent says
They cannot contemplate without
grave misgivings the possibility that
the Pretoria government will be per
mitted to further delay matters on the
plea of consulting the burghers
The Times correspondent adds
I There is nothing to confirm the re
pOrts that the Boers will concede ilr
Chamberlains demands On the con
trary it is stated that 00D men will be
dispatched to the border immediately
after the Transvaals reply is sent
Everything points to the prospect of a
early conflict S
The advices from Capetown today
tend to confirm pessimistic views of
the Times correspondent at New
Castle The news that a strong force of
Boers has been stationed one hour from
Ramathlabama commanding the Pre
toria and Johannesburg roads has
created great indignation at Capetown
The first battalion of the Manchester
regiment arrived at Capetown today
disembarked and marched through the
streets The soldiers were wildly
I cheered After they had been reviewed
by Lieutenant General Sir Frederick
Walker commander of the British
I troops in South Africa the battalion
reembarked and proceeded to Natal
These troops forming the first install
ment of the reinforcements were sent
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from Gibraltar to Capetown
BEAL CRISIS TO COME
When the Question of Permanent
Peace Comes Up For Settlement
New York Sept 15A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says A cold
I I fit has followed the hot fit over war
I with the Transvaal The acceptance
by President Kruger of the
I PeIdent proposals
of peace made with dignity and tact in
I the Chamberlain dispatch is regarded
a highly probable The Boers are
simply required to carry out their own
offer of Aug 19 with the
ofer wih suzerainty
question left out and permission to use
English in the Volkshaad added Both
the commission of inquir and the
Cape Town conference ought easily to
be arge since the Boers have al
ready accepted one and apparently
want the other An interval of pacific
diplomacy may be confidently expected
uti there is a sudden change of tem
per in Pretoria S S
The best informed observers assert
asser
that the real crisis will come when
guarantees for permanent peace are
discussed in the conference The
natural inference Is I that the British
representatve will demand the r
duction of the defensive works at
Johannesburg or at Pretoria since
these menace Englishmen only and are
I not needed for external defence from
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I any foreign power
Reduction or abandonment of these j
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fortifications will probably be pro
posed as a reasonable guarantee of
peace which will be satisfactory to the
jmperial government The Boers will
not be likely to take the same view of
the matter They wH consider it an
unreasonable demand remembering
Jamesons raid and thefeaL crisis in
the relations between the Transvaal
arieEngland3viU follow
The safestjudgment which can now
be formedis that barring accidents or
an impetuous Boer rush upon Laings
Nek a conference will be arranged
and that there will be no war until the
end of October if at all Everything
indicates that the British government
has determined to operate on a large
scale if it is compelled to declare war
and I will not take any chances The
appointment of Sir George White is a
clear indication that the government
will be prepared for an emergency
which may require a force of 40000 men
The selection of the former com
manderInchief in India cannot be ex
plained on any other ground and he
will be at the base of operations Cer
tainly there are not British troops
enough in South Africa at the present
moment for operations on the Tae
scale which the government has In
mind if i is forced to settle the Trans
vaal question by war
BLUE BOOK IS ISSUED
Tells of the Distress Occasioned By
Situation In the Transvaal
London Sept 15A blueboook con
taining the last Transvaal dispatch of
the secretary of state for the colonies
Mr Chamberlain relating to the mat
ter which led up to the dispatch being
sent was issued today The text of
Mr Chamberlains note is identical
with the dispatch as cabled to the As
sociated Press Sept 13 The only im
portant feature revealed is a telegram
from the British high commissioner
Sir Alfred Milner dated Aug 31 refer
ring to the commercial distress and
saying S
I a receiving representations from
many quarters to urge the imperial
government to terminate the suspense
British South Africa is prepared for
extreme measures and is ready to suf
fer much more in order to see the vin
dication of British authority It Us the
prolongation of the negotiations end
less and indecisive that is dreaded I
fear seriusly that there will be n
strong reaction of feeling against the
policy of the imperial government I
matters drag Please understand that
I invariably preach conference and
confidence and patience and not with
out effect But if I did not inform you
of the increasing difficulty of doing this
and of the unmistabable growth of un
easiness about the present situation
and of the desire to see it terminated
at any cost I should be failing in my
duty
Other lengthy dispatches from the
British high commissioner are pub
lished but they only reiterate the Out
lander claims regarding the franchise
and the commissioners ideas regarding
the propositions already made The
blue book throws no new light on the
situation as it is today except to show
the commissioners patience has
reached the ebbing point
URGES PACIFIC MEANS
John Morley Holds United States Up
As Warning to the War Element
Manchester Sept 15The Rt Hon
John Morley liberal member of par
liament for Montroseburgh while ad
dressing a peace meeting in this city
tonight at which a son of the late John
Bright the distinguished British states
man and friend of peace presided was
frequently interrupted by cries of Ma
juba hill and other antiBoer demon
strations In retorting to the inter
ruptions Mr Morley sad
A year or two ago the United States
saw only aspect of war and what are
they today They are repenting They
have their yellow press and we have
our yellow press If I a asked to
speak in this hall a year or two later
I shall find those who now oppose me
repenting also
The proceedings finally became so
noisy that Mr Morley had great dif
ficulty in obtaining a hearing He urged
hdherence to the fiveyear franchise
proposal and advised President Kru
proposa
ger to accede to Great Britains sug
gestion regarding the conference
Mr Leonard Courtney unionist mem
ber of parliament for the Bodmin di
vision of Cornwall in seconding Mr
Morleys resolution in favor of secur
ing reforms by pacific means advo
I cated the remitting of the question of
suzerainty to the privy council
resolution was carried
Mr Morleys resluton carrie
by a large majority the noisy minority
expressing its dissent by hoisting the
Union Jack
KBUGEB HAS KEPT PBOMISE
Says British In the Transvaal Do
Not Want the Franchise
London Sept 15A published inter
view with President Kruger said to
have taken place at Pretoria is im
portant He is quoted a saying
I have tried all along to place the
aliens in the Transvaal on the same
footing politically as the burghers Mr
Chamberlain says I have not kept my
promises S This thundered President
Kruger I deny
Continuing President Kruger is re
ported to have added The aliens of
the Transvaal have the same commer
cial rights as the burghers and have
always enjoyed them without interfer
I ence I wanted to let them have the
same political rights but they would
not avail themselves of this Roughly
I there are more that 50000 aliens who
have been here more than seven years
and have registered thus being eligible
to the franchise Yet of the British
subjects who have availed themselves
of it the chief part have been Afrikan
dersand not English born This shows
that the British Transvaal does not
want the franchise
In my opinion there is no cause
whatever for war Everything could be
settled by arbitration
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MAY HAVE BhEN SEA SERPENT
Upheaval of the Waters of a Lake In
State of Washington
Spokane Wash Sept liWord has
reached here of a recent peculiar oc
currence at Lake Chelan the largest
lake in Washington situated about 200
miles west of here in the heart of a
mountain range Last Sunday persons
living along the lake shore saw an up
heaval of the > waters near the lake cen
ter Huge waves some of them ten
feet high started from this point and
rolled toward the shore At one point
where the small passenger steamer Kit
ten was moored the boat was torn
loose by the waves and carried ashore
When the waves receded it a carried
back overturned and swamped No
person was aboard at the time The
disturbance Is thought to have been of
volcanic origin
Increase of Pensions
Special to The Herald
Washington Sejt 15 Osman B Ja
cobs of Sat Lake City has been grant
ed a increase of pension fpm 8 to 12
per month dam Alber of Tanney
Ida ha been granted an increase
from 10 io 12 per mon h
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Dreyfus Is to Withdraw His
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H WILL RETIRE TO
THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
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Will Endeavor to Avoid All Demon
strations of Sympathy t
These Might Be Used Against Him
I Case a Effort Is Made to
Cause the Court of Cassation Later
On to Quash the Rennes Trial
B Liberation Will Be Decided
Upon at Cabinet Meeting Next
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S London Sept iGM de Blowitz the
Paris correspondent of the Tunes says
S I learn that Captain Dreyfus will
shortly withdraw his appeal for a re
vision of the Rennes trial l which will
leave the ground clear for the govern
ment to take immediate steps t par I
don him This pardon will not anrjuil
the civil and military consequences of
the verdict and he will therefore no
longer belong to the army
There is nothing however to prevent
him from applying to the court of cas
sation to quash the Rennes trial when
ever the new fact required by law is
produced When liberated he will set
tle in the south of France 3 the mem
bers of his family do not wish to expose
pose him to such demonstrations of
sympathy abroad a might be used
against him by his adversaries at
home S
London Sept 16The Paris corre
spondent of tne Daily News says The
premier M WaldeekRousseau has
promised i definitely to propose a pardon
r for Dreyfus at next Tuesdays cabinet
I council S
I SOBER SECOND THOUGHT
I Proposed Dreyfus Massmeeting I
Dreyus
New York Will Be Abandoned
I New York Sept 15 There will be no
massmeeting in this city to protest
I against the condemnation of Dreyfus
Efforts were made to arrange such a
gathering but the men who were asked
to take part declined todo so and ex
pressed the opinion that the move
ment was a mistake Consequently the
I promoters of the affair decided to aban
don the Idea Former Mayor Strong
who was asked to preside former Sec
retary of the Interior Bliss President
Guggenheimer of the municipal council
and other men of standing told the ad
vocates of the massmeeting plan that
they would do Dreyfus cause more
harm than good by holding i and that
they could not consent to participate 1
in it I
I became evident that there is very i
little basis for the talk of boycotting
the Paris exposition because of the sec
ond verdict against Dreyfus Repre
I
sentative men expressd the view that
the entire French nation should not be
condemned because Qf the action of a
military clique and that the feeling
aroused by the Dreyfus verdict should
not be allowed to interfere with the ex
position
I think that agitation tending to
arouse bitterness between this country
and France because of the Dreyfus
trial places us In rather a ridiculous
position said Cornelius N Bliss My
opinion like that of most other Americans
cans is that a great injustice has been
done but talk of boycotting the Paris
exposition because of it is foolish A
man came to me last night and again
this morning to get me to take part in a
Dreyfus massmeeting but I told him
I disapproved of the plan I do not
think that the exposition will suffer
We should pay no attention what
ever to the Dreyfus case said former
Mayor William Strong That is a
matter of their own over there and
what the judges have decided should
not interfere with the exposition in
I any way I i intend to send some goods
to the exposition just as if there had
never been any Dreyfus case and I
have not heard a single man talk of
withdrawing his exhibits
William F King president of the
Merchants association is strongly op
posed to any boycott of the exposition
In France as in America there are
good and bad elements said he but
they have a solid foundation there
just as we have The action of the
military party should not condemn
France In regard to the suggested
boycott of the exposition I regard it a
a ver dangerous precedent to estab
lish for one government to boycott a
sister government No boycott ever was
successful and none ever will be as
civilization has advanced too rapidly
I think the exposition will probably TJB
more successful than ever before ow
ing to the increased prosperity
President Guggenheimer of the coun
oil said I db not approve of the agi
tation or of the massmeeting plan be
cause I dont think they will do any
good at this tim We all recognize the
fact that a great wrong has been done
but I believe that agitation will not
help matters any I believe that ex
hibitors should decline to send any
thing to the Paris exhibition and that
Americans Should no longer an their
money there They can withdraw them
in a quiet and orderly manner how
ever and without offensive disturb
ance
S My first thought when I heard of
the verdict was that we ought tore
taliate on the exposition said Frank
S Gardiner secretary of the board of
I trade and transportation But after
all the exposition is a business matter
and our merchants are to show goods
there for their own benefit rather than
that of France Therefore it would be
foolish to hold back
Joseph Larocque thinks that the suc
cess of the exposition will depend large
ly on whether Dreyfus is set free
Everyone feels that justice has been
outraged he said but that feeling
will not seriously influence action in
regard to the exposition A good deal
will depend upon the action of the
French government and the higher
courts on the Dreyfus case
HOW ABOUT MBS MAYBBICKP
Michael Davitt Says England Is liv
ing I a Glass House
I London Sept 15The papers are
still flooded with Dreyfus letters I the
W 1 J
most remarkable today being from Mr
Michael Davit the Irish nationalist
member of parliament and the Rev
Hush Price Hughes editor of the Meth
odist Times Mr Davitt says English
sympathy for the prisoner is entirely
due to the fact that Dreyfus Is a rich
Jew instead of a poor one and to the
desire to injure a rival nation
No absolutely innocent man con
tinues Mr Davitt was ever convicted
twlcenn any civilized country by a jury
of his peers No civilized country
could produce a conspiracy of men edu
cated cultured and responsible like the
French military chiefs to stoop to the
baseness and infamy of plotting to ruin
officer The suppositiOn
a insignificant petty ofcer
position Is tod monstrous to be enter
tained by any mind warped by anti
S French f ln
What have you to say about Flor
ence Maybrick Your lord chief jus
tice is said to believe her innocent So
do many eminent Englishmen and tens
of thousands of Americans Why has
she not had a second trial if innocent
She has suffered ten times more than
Dreyfus could suffer She is an Ameri
can citizen abandoned more or less by
the press and public opinion of her
pre
country which can repeat the London
phrased insults to France for the alleged
leged miscarriage of justice but which
do not have a word of protest or of
reproach against England which re
fuses to listen to the petitions of America
ica in regard to the unfortunate counr
trywomans gaolers
tywomans
The Rev Mr Hugh Price Hughes in
the Methodist Times preached against
the first of English gentlemen the
Prmce of Wales being allowed as
chairman of the British committee to
associate with liars forgers and as
sassins I S
TS HE WILL BE PARDONED
Soldiers and All Want to Get Bid of
S the Dreyfus Case
New York Sept 15A dispatch to
I the World from Paris says Command
ant Carriers1 the government commis
sioner of the Dreyfus courtmartlal at
Rennes has said in an interview
Dreyfus is certain to be pardoned
very shortly Everybody wants to get
vershory
rid of the Dreyfus case the soldiers
more tlhan anybody else In any case
Captain Dreyfus will not have to go
Dreyus
through a second degradation that
I am certain
Voice Prom Buenos Ayres
Buenos Ayres Sept 15All the pa
pers with the exception of one or two
clerjcal ones condemn the sentence of
Dreyfus Indignation prevails through
out the country The students prepared
a demonstration but were stopped by
te police Numerous telegrams of
sympathy have been sent to Dreyfus
and Lahori A group of Rosario citi
suns cabled as follows to Mme Drey
fus After twenty centuries he world
hails you a new Mater Dolorosa
Despair Over Proposed Boycott
I London Sept 15The Daily Mail which I
is still booming a boycott of the Paris
I exposition publishes dispatches from
Paris and 1 c that describe insults in
I th streets to Americans and British
Its correspondents rcans these Incidents
I as indications that the people of both
nations should avoid going to France
especially the Rlvlent and declare that
I the house agents there are in despair at
kll prospect of abandonment
Chile Wants Him Pardoned >
Valparaiso Chile Sept 15The citi
zens of Valparaiso are sending the fol
lowing telegram to President Loubet
The inhabitants of Valparaiso con
vinced of Dreyfus innocence invoke
your to pardon feelings him humanity and justice I
Pope to Urge Harmony
Rome Sept 15The pope while receiv
ing fifty pilgrims from Toulouse France
w day announced his Intention to address
a letter to the French nation urging an
Immediate pacification for the sake of
humanity and so as not to compromise
the success of the Paris exposition
SENT T HIM INTO ANKRUrTC
ENGLISHMAN INTERESTED IN A
UTAH SILVER MINE
Was Unable to For a Company and
London Baise Money to Operate It I
Special to The Herald
New York Sept 15A special to the
New York Commercial Advertiser from
London says that in the London bank
rupt court yesterday an adjourned
meeting of creditors was held under the
failure of B W B Bell The senior
official receiver reported that accounts
had been filed showing unsecured lia
bilities of 15575 and assets nl
The debtor was formerly an officer in
the army Then he joined the British
South African companys police force
and was subsequently interested in a
ranch in Utah and an orange grove in
California
When in the United States the debtor
became interested in the Creole silver
and to
and lead mine in Utah came
England and since 1897 had been en
gaged in attempting to form a com
pany to acquire i but so far nothing
definite has been done
I the mine had been floated he would
have become entitled to the amount of
02000 for every 100000 of capital
subscribed The matter is at present
at a standstill and the mine is shut
down He ascribed his failure to loss
In 8000 connection with the Creole mine
I CARELESS WITH HIS WEALTH
Hawaiian Finds Himself Missing a
Fortune In San Francisco
San Francisco Sept 15B R Ban
ning a Hawaiian capitalist arrived
from Honolulu on the stsamship Aus
tralia last Tuesday and registered at
the Occidental Among his effects was
a valise containing It is said between
30000 and 50000 in bank notes bonds
and sugar stocks together with a num
ber of other valuable documents A
few hours after his arrival Tie missed
his valise A Investigation hrs been
made and i is now th ught that Mr
Bannings property is on its way back
to Honolulu having been sent on board
the Nippon Maru by mistake as part
of the baggage of Purser River of that
vessel
Hobart 7nlT to Move
New York Sept ISA special from
Long Branch N J to the Press says
Vice President Hobart expected to leave
Normanhurst his summer home today
for Paterson hut his health would not
permit The vide president accordingly
postponed nesday his departure until next Wed
Yellow PeverStill Raging
JKey West Fla Sept 15There have
been thirty new cases of yellow fever In
the past twentyfour hour One death
was resorted
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OfffR fOR OGOf GAS COMPANY
A W RUMOR THAT COMES
PROM WALL STREET
Proposition Involving 85000000
Was Refused and a Demand For
More Money Made
Special to The Herald
New York Sept 15Report comes
to Wal street from Chicago that a di
rect ofer of 5000000 in cash was re
cently made for the property and
ranches of the Ogd n Gas company and
the Cosmopolitan Electric company
which owns the stock of the Ogden
company While this offer did not
come directly from the Peoples Gas
Light Coke company It Is thought
that it was made in its behalf The
offer was refused
A counter proposition was made for
the sale of the Ogden Gas company
and the Cosmopolitan Electric company
for 6500000 This proposition was re
fused by the persons who had made the
first offer of 5000000 for the properties
tiesLocal
Local interests identified with the
Peoples Gas company had nothing to
say yesterday when seen regarding the
Peoples Ogden negotiations
THE LAW IS UPHELD
Act Tang Collateral Inheritances
I California I Constitutional
San Francisco Sept 15The su
preme court of California in an opin
ion handed down In the matter of the
estate of Leland Stanford has held a
constitutional the act of 1893 taxing
collateral inheritances This opinion
rendered by four justices one dissent
ing reverses the decision in the same
case written a year ago by Supreme
Justice Harrison who dissented from
the majority of opinion The law a
laid down today applies to every estate
in California over 500 in value and
puts immediately into the school fund
nearly 300000 all of which comes from
the Stanford estate
esate
When Senator Stanford died he left
a will in which among other bequests
he gave 2500000 to trustees for the
benefit of the university he had estab
lished and 2200000 to certain of his
nephews and nieces residing in this
state and in the east
The district attorney of this county
on behalf of the treasurer brought an
action against Mrs Stanford a ad
ministratrix for 235750 taxes on the
collateral inheritances mentioned In
the lower court judgment went in fa
vor of the law and an appeal was taken
to the supreme court by Mrs Stanford
which reversed the judgment of the
lower cpurt on the ground that the
legislative amendment of 1893 exempt I
ing local heirs and taxing foreign heirs
inheritances was a discrimination and
hence the act and amendment were un
constitutional This decision was re
garded as a great victory a it was a
hard blow to the inheritance tax act
The attorney general of the state se
cured a rehearing and the supreme
courts second decision on the consti
tutionalityof the act under considera
tion is upheld on the ground that the
tax in question is not upon the prop
erty but upon the right of succession
and the right of the legislature to im
pose a excise ta includes the right
which it
to select the subjects upon i
shall be imnosed The reason for the
amount now due about 300000 being
greater than the amount sued fo 257
750 Is on account of the penalties at
tached for nonpayment of the ta
DIED ON THE GALLOWS I
Negroes Pay Penalty For Their
Crimes I the South
Mobile Ala Sept 15 Henry Gard
ner a negro aged 18 was hanged in the
nego
jail yard here today for assaulting a
white girl under 10 years of age last
June When the trap fell the noose had
not been properly fastened and the
negro fell heavily to the ground He
was assisted to the scaffold suffering
great pain and the trap sprung the
second time successfully
PulaskiVa Sept Iff Noah Finley a
negro was hanged here today His
crime was highway robbery and at
tempted murder and his execution was
the only instance in late years in which
the extreme penalty has been imposed
in Virginia for this offense
Shooting Scrape Over a Cow
Shellton Wash Sept 1SE A Has
tell was shot and killed last night on
Hortstein island by Wallace W Lott
The shooting was caused by Haskells
garden cow breaking Into and damaging LoWs
Mother Kills Children and Herself
Scotia Neb Sept 15As a result of I
domestic difficulties r Earne Phil
ips forced her two children aged 1 and
2 years to take carbolic acid and then
swallowed a dose of the poison herself
The husband found all three lying upon
the floor dead when he returned from
the field where he had been at work
Hurricane 02 New Poundland I
St Johns N F Sept 15A violent
hurricane swept this section of New
Founaland last night Four fishing boats
were driven pft the St Johns coast and
three men and a woman drowned I is
feared that there has been much damage
and points probably loss of life at more distant
I S Foods I Austria
Vienna Sept 15Numerous fatalities
continue to be reported and the complete
death roll will not be known until several
weeks have passed Several places in the
Perg district of upper Austria have been
flooded but at most points the waters are
fooed mos pints waer
subsiding Ischl is safe and railway
communication between Vienna has and been Salsberg reestablished
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Boycott of the Short Line
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Too Much Water For Bowdidge
Bids O University Buildings
Troubles of Elder Jensen
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Mining Stock Market
Lease On the Silver Key
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Weekly Trade Baview
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Chicago Sept 15 The exciting joint
debate looked for tonight between Wil
liam J Bryan and W Bourke Cockran
onntrustgjdianot take place Central
Music hall ails packed with an eager
audience but the people present had to
content themselves without the oratory
of the famous NebrasKan who how
ever occupied 8 seat on the platform
Mr Bryan reached Central Music
hall early in the evenirg He went di
rect to a room upstairs where he was
greeted by Chairman Franklin Head
Congressman Gaines Ralph r Easley
members of the programme committee
of the civic conference on trusts Mr
Bryan surprised the committee by de
clining to speak at the night session
with W Bourko Cockran In accordance
with the programme previously ar
ranged Mr Bryan explained that he
did not wish to let thfoimpression go
out that he was to enter into a debate
with Mr Cockran For tat reason he
said he would not speak with Mr
Cockran at the same session
Mr Cockran was sent for and he and
Mr Bryan discussed the situation The
committee withdrew to allow the two
orators to settle the dispute among
themselves Mr Bryan asserted that
he never said ho would follow Mr
Cockran with an address on < the same
evening If the committee got that im
pression from the conversation he had
with them over the long distance tele
phone Thursday he said they misun
derstood him
Bryan Wouldnt Speak
Mr Cockran wanted tq taljc at the
Cocral wante
same session with the poted Nebraskan
and offered to flip a coin to determine
who should have the privilege of de
livering the closing address Mr Bryan
would not accept this proposition Mr
Cockran then agreed Jo appear at any
time the committee desired l
The programme was tonight changed
to me t Mr Bryans wishes Mr Bryan
said he was anxious to address the
conference and repeated that his only
reason for changing the programme
was to avoid any indication of a public
de atl with Mr Cookrarf Mr Bryan
H speak at tomorrows session S
Though disappointed In failing to see
such a spectacle as Bryan and Cochran
pitted against each other the audi
ence enjoyed a rare treat as Mr Cock
ran was at his best and his speech was
punctuated with frequent and prolonged
applause When Mr Bryan made his i
appearance at the entrance it was the
signal for tumultuous cheering which
lasted until the Nebraskan had taken
his seat on the speakers std
Mr Foulke of Indiana who was in the
middle o a address when the outburst
occurred put the audience in good hu
mor by remarking I guess you came
here tonight to hear somebody else
speak Mr Foulke was followed by
Edward Rosewater of Omaha whose
address received notably close atten
tionfrom his hearers The chair then
introduced Hon W Bourke Cochran
of New York Mr Cochran said In
part
partS Bourke Cockrans Speech
I shall endeavor for the purpose of
establishing intelligent basis of dis
cussion somewhat free from these
terms over which men have become
moved to passionate declamation to
define prosperity an abundance of
commodities fairly distributed among
those who produce the
We must have commodities to dis
tribute before we can distribute them
in the form of wages or profits I this
definition of prosperity be correct it Is
perfectly plain that tee is no reason
why a sensible man should grow ex
cited either to the approval or resent
ment at a combination merely as such
A combination may be good or bad ac
cording to its effect Any industrial
system which operates to sweCl the vol
should be commended
nine of production soud com
mended anything that operates to re
strict it should be suppressed
src whether any of these combina
tions of capital or combinations of
labor operate to raise prices or reduce
them Is a subject about which there Is
a wide diversity of opinion There a
sdme combinations which operate to
reduce price and which operate to de
precate ruce them I would be Idle to say
that some improve that some raise
prices andsome depress them if we did
r ryyw yr 7 1 Y L
not subscribe some test by which wa
could distiriguisic betW8en3the two
Suggests a Tet J
Now ladies and gentlemen I tblnS
It is a simple one perfectly clean thIn
test Is to ascertain whether the
te acertain whethe the com
bination of capital flourishes through
government aid or without i for my
friends you must see that any indu
trial enterprise which dominates the
market without aid from the govern
ment must do so through cheapening
the product or a it is commonlt
called by underselling competitors
An industry which at one and thE
same time reduces prices and swell
its own profits must accomplish thai
result by increasing the volume of its
production On the other hand a In
dustry which dominates the
dustr dominate market by
the favor of the government direct or
indirect cannot In the nature ot
things be forced to cheapen prices b
cause if it could dominate the market
by underselling competitors in an open
field the government without favor favor It would Applause not need
The interference of the government
would be a injury and not a benefit
to It An Industry or combination of
capital or anything you may choose to
call it that dominates a market
through a restricted competition that
delivers the consumer to its own terms
necessarily depends upon a narrow out
put and large profits extorted not from
the excellency of its service but from
the helplessness of those with whom
it deals Applause
Three Ways of Interfering
Now there are three ways In which l
the government Interferes in the trade
of Individuals in this country one is
by patent laws The other means by
which the government interferes is by
tariff Now I believe that every person
can concede whether he believes in
high tariff or free trade that so fa a
trusts are concerned the tariff operates
to favor them in this way and in this
way only It operates to restrict com
petltlSn In the production of any article
to those engaged in it in this country
But it a trust or combination is to b
formed manifestly It aids the enter
prise where the field of competition Ia
I originally limited
Under a condition of free trade
every article which is produced Is exposed
posed to the competition of the whole
world I you rely on the combination
to suppress competition manifestly itt
is eie to make a combination be
tween the producers in one country
than in all countries and to that extent
tent the tariff1 favors Applause r
There Is still a third essential with
which we can deal and which I believe
is vastly more extensive in its results
than this tariff in favor of trusts And
I refer to those favors which
whic are ex
tended to certain industries or from the
corporations enjoying government
franchises which are none the less
noe le gov
ernment agencies because their stock is
owned by private individuals
And here we are face to face with
a serou difficulty First I must a
sume it a serious difficulty because it
is almost Impossible to discover i It
is surrounded by secrecy That it is
existing and does exist everybody be
lieves j
levesTe Governments Powers
But my friends you must rem em
ber that no person can enjoy favor at A
the hands of any company enjoying a
public franchise except at the expense
of another I Is true of every instance
where government favors a individual
I have said in many places and I say
here that government cannot at one
and at the same time be a fountain ot
generosity and justice Applause j
Government cannot create anything
Now if government cannot create any
thing it has nothing of its own to be
stow I it undertakes to enrich one
individual the thing it gives to him it
must take from another Applause
If it does a favor It must have a vic
tim And that government only I i Just
and beneficient which has neither fav
orites nor victims
Now I have said that these favors
are extended by the common belief and
I have said and acknowledged that it
one person attains rates that are excessively
cessively favorable if his goods are
transported at a loss why other men
using that same facility must make
good the loss What i the remedy
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